Vodacom starts fiber rollout

[rpm]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Cellular/1612.html

 

[FireTelkom]

Roll out at 2km a day, and they hace done 2km. Does this mean they started on Wednesday?

 

[lordnokon]

lol

 

[feo]

This is probably the 1000th article Ive read on some company thats started with some rollout and Im sorry to report that I cant remember any of the previous ones that were completed and offered to me as Joe Average.

 

[rpm]

This is probably the 1000th article Ive read on some company thats started with some rollout and Im sorry to report that I cant remember any of the previous ones that were completed and offered to me as Joe Average.

MTN recently announced services on their networks. One should also not expect to see residential offerings...these networks are partly there to serve their own backhaul purposes...

 

[Vember]

This is probably the 1000th article Ive read on some company thats started with some rollout and Im sorry to report that I cant remember any of the previous ones that were completed and offered to me as Joe Average.

I think it is "the Average Joe" and yes im one of them too.. but i think the best is Neotell so far >>heading for 2009 though

 

[eltherza]

MTN has already launched commercial fiber based offerings in the Sandton and Rosebank areas where they have an established fixed line network.

Ok.. you get fiber then what? Does that connect you to the MTN network?

 

[DOOMIE61]

whats fiber??

 

[ldmelsa]

whats fiber??

It's the stuff in your "Kellogs All Bran".

 

[kris860911]

yawn. what we getting?

 

[ldmelsa]

yawn. what we getting?

Cereal.

 

[AirWolf]

Pretty much more of the same --> everyone's starting something, but when will they finish?

 

[kris860911]

its imminent

 

[ic]

This is probably the 1000th article Ive read on some company thats started with some rollout and Im sorry to report that I cant remember any of the previous ones that were completed and offered to me as Joe Average.

MTN recently announced services on their networks. One should also not expect to see residential offerings...these networks are partly there to serve their own backhaul purposes...

Also, once both Vodacom and MTN have enough of their own fibre optic infrastructure in place, and are considerably less reliant on Telkodemonopolies, it will pave the way for faster HSPA and in Vodacom's case WiMax [albeit with the ever incompetent iBurst], in time this will also mean that data transfer [-]rates[/-] pricing for consumers will reduce even further.

 

[Ou grote]

Will this be affecting driveways and landscaped gardens again?

 

[Conspirator]

Will this be affecting driveways and landscaped gardens again?

Yes, imminently like Kris said. So if you start planting thorny stuff now then they will pick a different driveway when the time comes @ 2009.

 

[vodacom3g]

As rpm and ic indicated, the purpose of these fiber networks is to create high-capacity, back-haul links.

This will provide more bandwidth while driving down costs, resulting in better access speeds and cheaper bandwidth for everyone. It also implies much faster service delivery as the current backlog of fixed lines (in the many thousands) is hampering network growth. (a lot, it's a HUGE problem)

The access network is the bit that you connect to as an end-user, and in turn, it connects to the backbone.

Various access methods exists and Vodacom will provide all of them, from Mobile (HSPA, EDGE) to Nomadic (WiFi, iBurst, WiMax (one day, if they can sort the standard), to fixed (ADSL, WiMax, etc.).

So these rings will directly improve your broadband experience.

 

[ic]

@v3g, about that ADSL from Vodacom, please point Pieter in [post=1262138]this direction[/post]. Vodacom has the right to lay its own fibre optic links - at the Rosebank exchange for IPConnect'ing into the ATM backbone without having to rent those links from Telkodemonopolies like IS & VB are forced to do.

 

[Syndyre]

@v3g, about that ADSL from Vodacom, please point Pieter in [post=1262138]this direction[/post]. Vodacom has the right to lay its own fibre optic links - at the Rosebank exchange for IPConnect'ing into the ATM backbone without having to rent those links from Telkodemonopolies like IS & VB are forced to do.

When is Vodacom planning to launch ADSL anyway, anytime soon?

 

[mcleodd]

whats fiber??

Correct spelling is fibre.